Discover magazine names two UCLA faculty among “brightest people alive”

Mathematics professor Terence Tao and assistant professor of…

Plate tectonics started over 4 billion years ago, geochemists report

A new picture of the early Earth is emerging, including the surprising…

Two UCLA students named Rhodes Scholars for 2009

A UCLA senior and a recent graduate have been chosen as winners…

Extinct sabertooth cats were social, found strength in numbers

The sabertooth cat, one of the most iconic extinct mammals, was…

Online bullying: A Common Problem

Nearly three in four teenagers say they were bullied online at…

UCLA mathematicians discover 13-million digit prime number

The team identified the first Mersenne prime number with more…

UCLA astronomer Andrea Ghez named MacArthur Fellow

Professor of physics and astronomy Andrea Ghez on Tuesday was…

Study offers new insights into teenagers, anxiety disorders

Can scientists predict who will develop anxiety disorders years…

Unique nanoscale droplets have cancer-fighting potential

The droplets produced by UCLA scientists are much smaller than…

Scientists solve 30-year-old aurora borealis mystery

UCLA space scientists and colleagues have identified the mechanism…